It’s amazing how one company gets approval from one country and will have 1000s of objects across the planet. Shouldn’t we have an international body of some sort at this point?
I think the idea would be to create a treaty framework and have candidate nations vote internally on whether to join. There's a clear benefit to coordinating space activity (imo), but I don't think the current US admin sees international cooperation as a net good. Even historically, the US tends not to be very democratic about foreign policy choices.
Related today:
Arianespace launches 32 Amazon Leo satellites with the first Ariane 64
https://newsroom.arianespace.com/arianespace-successfully-la...
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995115)
Competition good.
Kessler bad.
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It’s amazing how one company gets approval from one country and will have 1000s of objects across the planet. Shouldn’t we have an international body of some sort at this point?
> Shouldn’t we have an international body of some sort at this point?
Says who?
Europe? The blue Navi in the movie Avatar?
I think the idea would be to create a treaty framework and have candidate nations vote internally on whether to join. There's a clear benefit to coordinating space activity (imo), but I don't think the current US admin sees international cooperation as a net good. Even historically, the US tends not to be very democratic about foreign policy choices.
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